Will Apache Parquet be the "next big thing" in the Big Data/Hadoop ecosystem? It was only 14 months ago that the Apache Spark project was graduated to a top-level project by Hadoop steward Apache ...

The Apache Arrow in-memory columnar format has become a critical component of many analytical database systems and tools. It brings a number of advantages to InfluxDB. Historically, working with big ...

The FDAP stack brings enhanced data processing capabilities to large volumes of data. Apache Arrow acts as a cross-language development platform for in-memory data, facilitating efficient data ...

The Linux column command makes it easy to display data in a columnar format — often making it easier to view, digest, or incorporate into a report. While column is a command that’s simple to use, it ...